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Fixes

• It is no longer possible to create more than one "me" author.
• Papers will no longer create a duplicate "me" author when opening a library which contains a paper authored by yourself.
• The Share menu items are now enabled on OS X 10.9.
• Resolves an issue where Citations would insert the current clipboard content, rather than a citekey or reference.
• Ink annotations now move in the way you'd expect them to when dragged around on El Capitan.
• Papers will no longer show a message saying that that your Papers Library is damaged if it is located inside of a Google Drive containing a damaged sync_config.db file.

Changes introduced in Papers for Mac 3.4.2 (423)

New Features

Citations

• You can now cite in:
  • iA Writer 3
  • Texts
  • OneNote

Sharing

• You can now share papers via more services, as we now use Mac OS' built-in sharing services for sharing.
• You no longer need to add your Twitter or Facebook credentials to Papers to share. Just sign in via System Preferences ▸ Accounts.
• New ways of sharing your papers: Link, Papers Link, PDF, PDF with Annotations and Papers Archive.

General

• Adds an option to disable text and line art smoothing in PDFs to General Preferences. This may improve image quality on non-retina displays.

Scripting

• A publication's citekey can now be set via scripting.
• Adds new scripting properties:
  • class publication item:
    • customized citekey
    • universal citekey
  • class file item:
    • file name
    • formatted file name
    • full path on virtual disk

Fixes

• Papers will no longer warn you multiple times if your library is placed into a shared folder.
• Papers will now warn you if you move your library into the trash.
• It is no longer possible to select the "Shared Collections" header in the sidebar.
• Adds crash reporting to Citations
• Fixes appearance of PDF zoom slider on El Capitan
• You can now perform local library search queries that only consist of a "NOT" operator.
• Searching Crossref for a query that only consists of a "NOT" operator no longer crashes.
• Fixes a crash when creating certain uncommon queries.
• Selecting your current library in maintenance mode no longer incorrectly shows a prompt warning you that you are switching to a library that is a copy of your current library.
• eLife articles imported from CrossRef are now imported with the correct title.
• Resolves an issue in Papers 3.4.2 (422) which would cause a crash at launch if a ~/Dropbox/ folder was not present.